bpo-37979: Add alternative to fromisoformat in documentation (GH-15596)

Adds a link to `dateutil.parser.isoparse` in the documentation.

It would be nice to set up intersphinx for things like this, but I think we can leave that for a separate PR.

CC: @pitrou 

[bpo-37979](https://bugs.python.org/issue37979)


https://bugs.python.org/issue37979



Automerge-Triggered-By: @pitrou
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Paul Ganssle 2019-08-29 10:47:48 -04:00 committed by Miss Islington (bot)
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@ -857,7 +857,9 @@ Other constructors, all class methods:
.. caution::
This does not support parsing arbitrary ISO 8601 strings - it is only intended
as the inverse operation of :meth:`datetime.isoformat`.
as the inverse operation of :meth:`datetime.isoformat`. A more full-featured
ISO 8601 parser, ``dateutil.parser.isoparse`` is available in the third-party package
`dateutil <https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parser.html#dateutil.parser.isoparse>`_.
.. versionadded:: 3.7

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Added a link to dateutil.parser.isoparse in the datetime.fromisoformat
documentation. Patch by Paul Ganssle